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Excerpt from Thes Mayor of Wind-Gap and Canvassing AN evening in the fine fresh month of May. Those Ephemera called, by some anglers, the May-fly, by some others the Green Drake and by those, out of our country whatever they may choose, had emerged in great abundance from their long imprisonment beneath the waters, and were now fulfilling the purposes of their brief atmospheric life. They swarmed in the slanting sun-beams Whisking their (to them) long tails, and fluttered their mottled wings, with such an appearance of thorough enjoyment, that it seemed as if their new state of being, was to be altogether devoted to worldly revelry and thoughtless love-making. In a very short time, however, the contingent and inevitable cares, to which every animate atom is liable, engrossed them. They settled down upon the water, from which they had arisen, preparing for a voyage (literally a voyage down the stream of life). Their wings, lately so alert, were, in order to serve them as sails during the voy age, soberly closed together. And as the current carried them along, they shed their ovea upon it, that a new race might be ensured, who should frolic in the May-beam of the ensuing year. Their pro vidential responsibility thus discharged, they drooped and died, liter having been but for a few hours the denizens of the breeze, which had summoned them into their aerial existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.